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Thus, the dominant hypothesis that remains is that of the awesome power of coping skills. Yes, coping skills. These are the same coping skills that let you move on after you get dumped by your significant other or when your favorite childhood pet runs away. True--coping at Harvard is not a new thing. Freshman year we tolerated and even grew to love the roommate who never took showers, constantly referred to itself in the third person, and insisted on practicing the tuba at 7 a.m. on weekends. Likewise, slowly but surely we even came to accept that pre-meds...
...back of Sunday magazines and relegated to Wednesday supplements. Men of power and women of means do not deign to discuss the particulars of a succulent piece of quail or the lightness of a perfectly-cooked souffle, preferring instead to jabber about the stock market or their pet poodles. They do not understand the obsession of the "foodie," the person for whom the best of life can be summed up in one divine meal...
...Democratic majority. As Gingrich and the Republicans began to stumble on issues like school lunches and Medicare, Gephardt and his increasingly optimistic troops began hammering out Families First in endless meetings. "Everyone brought their ideas," he says. Most of them were thrown out, including Gephardt's own pet protectionist proposals on trade...
Other medical advances of the final third of our century have been equally dazzling. They include arthroscopic and laparoscopic surgery, effective chemotherapy, the newer reproductive technologies and highly specific drug treatment of mental diseases. Physicians now routinely use sophisticated imaging techniques such as CAT and PET scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and vastly improved radioisotope methods for diagnosis and treatment, plus X ray-guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The increased understanding of ultramicroscopic cellular activities has led to the development of new drugs for a wide variety of disorders, including heart disease...
Recently, positron-emission tomography (PET) scan studies at the UCLA School of Medicine have revealed that either Prozac or cognitive therapy can actually restore normal function in the obsessive-compulsive brain. The scans have documented that ocd patients have abnormal activity in the head of the caudate nucleus, a part of the brain's deep-dwelling basal ganglia, coupled with unusual activity in the orbital prefrontal cortex, just above the eye sockets. The caudate nucleus normally acts as a gatekeeper, determining which thoughts, feelings and behaviors take priority. When it malfunctions, the "worry inputs" generated in the orbital prefrontal region...